The vote by LCAR was 4-2 to adopt the California rule. In favor of ending new internal combustion cars and trucks were four Democrats: Rep. Seth Bongartz (Manchester), Rep. Carol Ode (Burlington), Sen. Ginny Lyons (Chittenden) and Sen. Chris Bray (Addison).
With a veto-proof majority, Democrats aim to take another crack at a clean heat bill and make climate issues their first priority next year in the State House.
The solution to the problem of Net Zero is admitting they made it up, we don’t need it, and even if we did, it can’t be done. It’s a lie. When you encounter it out in the wild, show them Willis’ math.
The price of heating oil, a fuel most commonly used in New England to heat homes, has gone up by 65% since October 2021. Meanwhile, the voters of Vermont just elected a legislature two-thirds of whose members can hardly wait to pass a clean heat standard to drive up the cost of home and business heating fuel.
Vermont power transmission substations have suffered no known physical attacks such as have caused power outages in North Carolina, Florida, Oregon and Washington.
The city of Burlington’s plan to heat city buildings with excess heat from the McNeil power plant has gotten the cold shoulder from the biomass task group of the Vermont Climate Council.
It’s politically popular to attribute all disasters to climate change. Ignoring other natural and man-made causes of catastrophe — like subsidence — makes it impossible to take effective avoidance and mitigation measures.
Why on earth would the Legislature seriously consider such CO2 reduction proposals if the Energy Futures Group model shows they will be terrible investments? Certainly not the loosest pretense of scientific merit. Rather, because Vermont’s Global Warming Solutions Act of 2020 says so.
High energy prices are projected to be the worst for New Englanders, where costs are the highest for every source of home heating that the agency tracks.
“Flooding is our state’s most common natural disaster,” said DEC Commissioner John Beling. “To protect both people and infrastructure, we work to reduce the risk of flooding and damage. This proactive planning improves our state’s flood resilience – or our ability to quickly recover.”
During Thanksgiving, as Vermonters faced record-high travel and fuel costs, the state announced two steps to nudge Vermonters out of gas-powered cars and into electric vehicles.
The debacle in the cryptocurrency industry has been a hardship for thousands. Similarly, EV conversion and full electrification could be life-threatening for millions if not thoroughly thought out.